| Description |
1 online resource (76 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Akron series in poetry
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Akron series in poetry.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"The poems in Brittany Cavallaro's Girl-King are whispered from behind a series of masks, those of victim and aggressor, nineteenth-century madame and reluctant magician's girl, of truck-stop Persephone and frustrated Tudor scholar. This "expanse of girls, expanding still" chase each other through history, disappearing in an Illinois cornfield only to re-emerge on the dissection table of a Scottish artist-anatomist. But these poems are not just interested in historical narrative: they peer, too, at the past's marginalia, at its "blank pages" as well as its "scrawls and dashes." Always, they return to "the dark, indelicate question" of power and sexuality, of who can rule the "city where no one is from." These girls search for the connection between "alive and will stay that way," between each dying star and the emptiness that can collapse everything"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; The Girl in Question; Girl-King; Points of Issue; Bildungsroman; Magician's Girl; Lies I Told; Postcard from Perugia, Post-Wedding; The Virgin Disambiguates; Superstition; White-Armed Persephone Walks into His Van; Aperture; Girl-King; Eliza-Crossing-the-Ice; Twins; Adulteress; Poem with First Two Lines from Paracelsus; Transmigration; The Resurrectionists; J.J. Audubon on His Stay in Edinburgh; Girl 2; Robert Knox, To a Supplier; William Burke in the Tanner's Close Lodging-House; Girl 3; Margaret Hare, To a Tenant. |
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Mary Paterson's DaughterHelen McDougal, To a Runaway; Girl 7; William Burke at His Dissection; Robert Knox, To a Girl in Labor; Mirror Songs; Could Not Make Good; Your Shotgun; In Us We Trust; Linked to the Land at Low Tide; The Knack of Ruin; The Name of This Was Freedom; City Where No One Is From; At the Illinois State Fair; Mythomania; Mesocyclone; Any Ordinary Hell; Autotheism; A Taxonomy of Sex; At Seventeen; Rebellion; Liebestod; Other Fields; Dream Park; Censored History; Cause/Effect; Loup de Guerre; Electricity, 1876; Girl-King; Notes; Acknowledgments. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018154559
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cavallaro, Brittany. Poems. Selections. Girl king 9781937378974 (DLC) 2014044270 (OCoLC)868642499 |
| ISBN |
9781629220000 (electronic book) |
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1629220000 (electronic book) |
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1937378993 (electronic book) |
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9781937378998 (electronic book) |
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9781937378974 |
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1937378977 |
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9781937378981 |
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1937378985 |
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